A collection of best practice articles to help grow companies with an emphasis on finance. The goal of the blog is to explain how these best practices work, enabling anyone to put these ideas to immediate use. Articles are written by Matt H. Evans, CPA, CMA, CFM

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NOTE: Effective January 1, 2017, I will no longer post new articles since I am now fully retired.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

It goes
without saying that people make the difference in great companies. Author Jim
Collins brought this point home in his book: Good to Great. One reason
this can be challenging is that people are different and they may not work well
with others. So how do you reduce the selection process and find people who can
add the highest value across the entire workforce? Well you may have to be
somewhat bias in favor of women.

Monday, July 20, 2015

As you drill down the drivers of performance for most organizations;
things like great customer service, efficient processes, and empowering
technology, you reach a base level for making these drivers happen. This
gets you back to the qualities of your human resources – knowledge,
expertise, experience, and those things needed for successful execution.
And the combination of skills, expertise, knowledge and other
intangibles will vary from job to job, function to function. For
example, what we need for executing for securing new customers is not
necessarily the same as what we need for efficient processes.

Sunday, July 12, 2015

One of the
most profound challenges facing every company is Cyber Security. Many of us,
including myself, are ignorant about the threat. Some of the largest companies
are experiencing massive data breaches. Examples include: